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Elizabeth Olsen’s career graph from being a child star to a Marvel icon is an inspirational journey. The former child actor entered the entertainment business at a very young age and appeared with her famous twin sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in their projects. Her debut as an adult was in the 2011 thrillerMartha Marcy May Marlenefor which she was nominated for a Critics Choice Award.
With her entry into the MCU as Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch, Olsen’s popularity skyrocketed and reached a peak with the critically acclaimed seriesWandaVisionwhich earned the star a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy nomination. But Olsen’s road to fame was also peppered with doubts and sacrifices. In an interview withVanity Fair,theAvengersstar got candid about her acting days as a child star and the dilemma she faced about her profession.
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Being A Child Actor Was Tough According to Elizabeth Olsen
Marvel starElizabeth Olsenwas part of a fun video series curated byVanity Fairin which the actor went down memory lane while watching clips of her performances from different films and shows. One of these snippets included a segment fromHow the West was Funwhere she starred as a child actor with her twin sisters Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. TheWandaVisionactor spoke honestly about the challenges that she faced as a young artist and the choices that she was forced to make during that time.
“Going to set felt like a job so it actually made me not want to work as a child. I just felt like I was always supposed to do this job and it was just about me accepting it or not”
Olsen also spoke about Hollywood being like her after-school day care where she would go everyday to either plunge herself into a role or to just sit in a corner and do her schoolwork.
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Elizabeth Olsen Had Doubts aboutWandaVision
Eizabeth Olsen’s journey with the MCU reached its pinnacle with the critically acclaimed Disney+ seriesWandaVisionwhich followed the complicated trajectory of Wanda Maximoff aka the Scarlet Witch. The show became one of the most watched series and garnered high praise for Olsen as an artist. But the actor admitted that she was not always sure about how it would be received.
According to Olsen,WandaVision‘s sitcom theme felt risky in comparison toThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s globetrotting superhero adventures, with both shows being filmed around the same time. Joking about her co-star Paul Bettany’s humorous comments about Wanda and Vision being the forgotten cousins of the MCU, Olsen said,
We loved what we were doing and had so much fun doing it, but we really felt like it was either going to, it might ruin us all. But I feel like that’s the stuff that’s the most fun to me, when you feel like you could fail at any second.”
While the end ofDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessindicated that Olsen’s time at the MCU was over, it is possible that her character could be revived in the next twoAvengersmovies as a possible contender to defeat the supremacy of Kang the Conqueror.
WandaVisionis streaming on Disney+
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Source:Vanity Fair
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Sharanya Sankar, Writer for FandomwireHaving completed her Masters degree in Journalism and Mass Communication, Sharanya has a solid foundation in writing which is also one of her passions. She has worked previously with Book My show for a couple of years where she gained experience reviewing films and writing feature articles. Sharanya’s articles on film and pop culture have also been published on Film Companion, a popular film-based website. Apart from movies and pop culture, her interests include music and sports. She has contributed over 650 articles to Fandomwire so far.
